The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-03-25
CURRENT COM m EMIT.
A CIVIL SERVICE HITCH IN BELFAST.
RnIfast IonrnnI

Belfast journal.
Mr. Fitz w. Gilbert, janitor of the custom
house building, was requested to resign last
week, but has not seen mt to comply with the
request. 1t is said that one or more of the
old deputies have taken similar stand
SOMETHING WORSE THAN HEREsY.
Lowell Courier.
An exchange reports that Prof. VIM. ].
Tucker OF Andover Theological Seminary, is
about TO marry Miss Cheeyer, a recent grad
uate OF Smith College If this is true, while
Ine Doard OF visitors may not prove DR..
tucker to be hereto, he will certainly
stand convicted of being a Miss Cheeyer' $
fellow.
MRS. CROCKETT MORE PENsIyE.
Belfast journal.
The Legislature has abolished capital pun
ishment, and there will be no more hanging
in Maine. This will be good news TO Mrs.
Crockett, now in Belfast jail, convicted of
murder. She said she did not mind going to
Sta tie prison, but could not bear the idea of
being hanged.
THE INGREDIENTS OF A MUGwuMP.
Chicago Tribune
A Chicago photographer has been much
interested in the subject of composite pho
Biography, as illustrated in the March Centu-
~. A few days ago he took negative of a
Chinese idol by way of experiment, and by
successfully super-imposing thereupon the
negatives of rhinoceros, donkey, King
Charles spaniel, a pelican, a gorilla, Flat
head Indian, and Dutch cheese, he has Sc
cured pretty fair photograph of Mug
wump.
SENATOR SHERMAN AT BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Boston Transcript.
Everybody, in this section at least, will
agree that Mr.. Sherman did exactly right in
rebuking race prejudice, and that he seized
q proper occasion for doing So The Ohio
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rights which our national constitution guar
antees when he publicly indicated his un-
mistakable disapproval of an act which
would have been interpreted as acknowledge
ing negro inferiority. The attempt to raise
the color line, and his reception of it, will
part of the country.
FROM AN OLD FOE OF CAPITAL. pUNIsH-
MENT.
Gospel Banner.
Let US rejoice that Maine again takes its
rlghtful position as Christian State in its
method of dealing with criminals. Credit
for securing this result may be properly
shared by many. persons: The law was
changed in 1888 without single petition from
the citizens of the State Capital punish
ment has again been tried and found want
ing. We trust that never again will a single
voice be raised in Maine for return to that
uncivilized penalty. May it have finally
PaSoOu 1iOil a StdJe Ol ulSrepuLaDle c0nSue-
tude to that "innocuous desuetude."
PHYSICAL TRAINING IN COLLEGE.
Boston Advertiser.
Amherst College takes the subject of phys-
zeal culture very seriously. Her plan of en-
downing chair of athletics to be called the
Beecher professorship is suggestive The
time has gone by for cheap wit about the
college training of physical strength and
endurance, and the wisdom of having such
training systematic is very generally
acknowledged in educational institutions.
Amherst wishes to put $4,000 into her
Beecher chair, and if She succeeds She will
add lively impetus to the idea which is
gathering all the momentum of the century,
that It is every mans duty to do all that may
become man.